Hi just this is my first post on this subreddit, I'm ready for umm, some hammers and angry rapid fan response. Anyways as a 30+ year old male, whole used to play Volleyball in his late teens and throughout my 20s, I'd say that Haikyuu is really bad for volleyball. Good exposure, bad everything else. I have to put a note here that I've only watch halfway through the first series almost to the end, I've just stopped as I heard the cliche, "lose ???? then go to nationals". Sure they have to market the new Molten's red and green and yellow and blue of Mikasa volleyballs somehow. They are signature balls everywhere now.
Anyways apart from it's "AoT no training arc" start. There's some gaping flaws in Haikyuu. Maybe anime this generation isn't made for us older folks. No side stories, no side characters to explore etc. Almost no slice of life added to a "sports" anime. Characters as bland as NPC meme. The MC looking like a curly redhead version of naruto minus the jumpsuit. Trust me I hate the bland Kirito archetype or the super japanese sociopath/sadist mad genius like Lelouch. Or the glasses guy, Uryu Ishida in bleach.
One caveat I hate is how the MC just suddenly learn to spike like some type of "Ultra Instinct". Also a HUGE HUGE flaw is he has the same "timing" for every spike. Just cuz you can draw anime like he's Michael Jordan or Lebron James doesn't mean it's good. Also having the same timing SHOULD make him vulnerable to blocks. I mean Imagine being a good spiker but can only hit 2-3 balls, not 1 balls? Or in this case fast 1 balls. You're so limited to the angle and attack vector. I mean if this was just high school or even post-high school club, any normal volleyball player after watching the MC spike 2-3 times would be able to block every ball of his. So in essence, the MC needs to learn different variety. As well as dinks, tips, swipes and cross court spike to "change it up". Imagine if you only got a killer cross cut spike, you're gonna get stuff everytime by someone who can get over the net.
No training arc really hits the nail in the coffin though, go back and watch older anime like Slam Dunk or Prince of Tennis. I know we're in global recession but you're gonna cut the "naruto Chunin Exams" arc. I mean Imagine the Naurto series without the first 3 arcs? At least do it sorta like a flashback like "Prince of Tennis" where the MC was already in the "World Championships" as a toddler lol.
Also the "love of the game" isn't well displayed like other sports anime. Take the passion from "Hikaru No Go", a spectral ghost plays chess and baffles the mind of a child prodigy. Then playing online and beating the world's best players"....Fast forward 20 years and in real life AI beats the world's best Go player. Then almost 7 years later, "A Human Amateur Beat a Top Go-Playing AI Using a Simple Trick". More notably the double encirclement/trap technique".
Also look at the immense side characters of the "Prince of Tennis" series. They got top schools, school rivals, street rivals. All to inspire and compete against. Even people with similar styles etc... I admit the era of Gintama and Dragonball Z and 2010s are over. Anime is only getting at most 13-26 series, but one would wish they could just make quality over quantity in the asian anime/donghua entertainment industry. Just look at Hollywood, getting subpar actors and crap plots and soon no one is gonna watch your S***T. I mean who wanna watch 100 Adam Sandler movies, it's like welfare for scrubs? When you can rewatch older films which stars Arnold or Sylvester Stallone . In essence there's no "street volleyball scene", where are the casual grass volleyball players? the beach goers? No super specialized libero or block expert? Anime doesn't even explain moves or strategy. It's like middle school soccer where everybody including the goalie chases after the ball. Aside from a few moves where are the "specials". No hook shot, no hovering move/air time. No dink expert. No back court king etc... I know blue lock came later but I heard it was created earlier in manga? Aside for it's ridicoulous plot it's a saving grace after Haikyuu and Kuroko's Basketball.
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In Conclusion:
Overall in the spirit of trash anime, being 5/10. I rank Haikyuu as a 7/10 right behind, BOFURI and Ascendance of a Bookworm.

7/10

Okay, to be honest, it's been 30 years since I was 5 - but when it comes to Lora, that's how I feel.
Would someone please be so kind and explain to me in simple terms firstly roughly the concept behind it and secondly a step by step explanation of how I do create a Lora fine tuning and how I apply it to a ggml model?
I only use CPU-llama.cpp, so I do not have a powerful GPU. So let's say I have a book as a raw text file and I want to have such a fine tuning Low rank adapter so that a LLM can respond more adequately to the content of the book.

• How, what, where do I need to do? I assume I would need to upload the text file and a model to some cloud GPU, right?
• How long will such a training/fine-tuning take, or what costs should I expect?I would be very grateful for very specific advice on what cloud services are available for this,
• And what comes then? Will a new file be created by the fine-tuning ... process(? what is the correct term actually?)
• How do I apply the in llama.cpp? On which model?

EDIT: i must add briefly: for some reason i thought fine-tuning and lora were roughly the same thing - sorry. What I actually mean is already Lora (I recently saw a kind of comic or meme about this: a character wears a different headgear every time and thus becomes sometimes a fireman, sometimes a policeman, sometimes a surgeon, etc. But the figure has not changed 'from the inside' so no fine tuning).
And the example with the raw text of a book is only a fictional example. I know that for something like that a vector-embedding and search is better suited. Or even just a normal text search.
The reason I want to know about Lora is only educational for now. I would really like to apply learning by doing here ;D * Does anything have to be processed or converted before?
I hope that not only I could benefit from this, but also other newcomers to this topic, because the documentation is either very difficult to find or too complicated to be understood by laymen.

Hello everyone! I come with news!
How are you all doing? I'm good thanks. I have a bunch of good news, a security warning and a little bit on our social media coming up!

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Phishing

With meme season in full swing, the Discord has seen an increase in malicious users. Currently, their attack vector consists of them taking over an expired Discord Vanity URL. Once they have this, they'll jump in your PM's, and offer you a job. You need to join their server, and they'll direct you to "verify" your account. This is where they redirect you to a website that instructs you to drag something to your bookmark bar, log into the discord web app, and click that bookmark. Once you click that bookmark, you give the attackers your discord account token. Once the attackers have that - even if you have 2fa - they have full access to your account.
Be careful. Think about everything and be safe. If anyone sends you any suspicous links, please contact the discord mods.

Social Media

Lads. I'm having a really fun time running the Garlicoin Twitter at the moment. Over the past month the engagement is up 500% (wish my garlicoin was lowkey) - We're growing in followers, and gaining exposure. I'd like to express a heartfelt thanks to everyone who is liking (even spam liking, you know who you are) retweeting and replying. It really helps with the algos. Keep doing it and give us a follow. I know you hear it all the time on the internet, but we're not lying when we say it!

Thank you

I honestly think we have one of the strongest communities in the crypto space at the moment and it's people like you, who are reading this, that reinforce that. Thank you for being here. We appreciate you.

Hi everyone,
I wanted to craft a 500pt "meme list" with the specific aim to make the opposing party go "What, why and how?".
This list should show off some interesting unit configurations, not necessarily be competitive.
To accomplish this, I thought to use 2 commanders, one of which is a melee enforcer, the other a speedster coldstar.
To fill the remainig points I chose a broadside with marker drone, which always brings the lols just by the fact that it carries a massive railgun.
What do you think of this list? Would it be fun to play against? Can I do better?
Drone only? Melee T'au? Give me your ideas for a meme list!
 
++ Arks of Omen Detachment (T'au Empire) [23 PL, 4CP, 500pts] ++
 
+ Configuration +
 
Battle Size [6CP]: 2. Incursion (51-100 Total PL / 501-1000 Points)
 
Detachment Command Cost
 
Game Type
 
Sept Choice: T'au Sept
 
+ HQ +
 
Commander in Coldstar Battlesuit [8 PL, 195pts]: (T'au): Vectored Manoeuvring Thrusters, 3. A Ghost Walks Among Us, Fusion Blaster, Fusion Blaster, Novasurge Plasma Rifle, Plasma Rifle, Shield Generator, Warlord
 
Commander in Enforcer Battlesuit [9 PL, -2CP, 195pts]: 1. Precision of the Hunter, Cyclic Ion Blaster, Cyclic Ion Blaster, Onager Gauntlet, Shield Generator, Stratagem: Emergency Dispensation, Stratagem: Promising Pupil, T'au Flamer, Thermoneutronic Projector
 
+ Heavy Support +
 
Broadside Battlesuits [6 PL, 110pts]
. Broadside Shas'vre: Heavy Rail Rifle, Stabilised Optics, Twin Smart Missile System
. Marker Drone
 
++ Total: [23 PL, 4CP, 500pts] ++
 
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Mangools is a popular suite of SEO tools that offers a range of features, including keyword research, SERP analysis, rank tracking, and tons of interesting extensions for marketing agencies. Still, it’s never a bad idea to explore the market and see what other affordable SEO tools are out there. Today, I’ll be taking a look at some of Mangools' closest competitors, their current prices, and the features they offer.
Website: https://mangools.com/
Pricing (monthly): Basic $49; Premium $69; Agency $129

SE Ranking

When factoring in price level and tool count, I found Mangool’s fiercest competitor to be SE Ranking. This platform has established itself as an all-in-one SEO solution by releasing an AI content tool, a local marketing tool, and recently, an agency pack with a bunch of additional solutions for their customers. Also, SE Ranking is known for providing one of the most accurate keyword tools in the market. If you take a look at the platform’s full list of features, you'll see that it covers all SEO vectors in one. Just take a look:
01) Keyword Rank Tracker
02) Keyword Research
03) Backlink Checker
04) Backlink Monitor
05) Competitive Research
06) Website Audit
07) On-page SEO Checker
08) Page Changes Monitor
09) Local marketing tool
10) White Label features
11) Report Builder
12) Lead Generator
13) Keyword Grouper
14) Social Media Analytics
15) Search Volume Checker
16) Index Status Checker
17) Keyword Suggestions
18) Traffic Analysis
19) Content Editor
And this isn't even the full list. I'm sure I missed something. But I can confidently say that SE Ranking has a deeply comprehensive set of features, especially for the price. Maybe it’s even safe to say that this is the most comprehensive solution among all other affordable SEO tools. We'll find out soon enough.
Website: https://seranking.com/
Pricing (monthly): Essential $49; Pro $109; Business $239

XOVI

You won't find many discussions about this tool in most English-speaking communities since most of XOVI’s target audience consists of agencies from Europe. Nonetheless, the set of tools it offers is compelling. When looking for a solution among tools in the middle price segment, XOVI seems to be a good option. Yes, I know, the Enterprise plan for €499 is not an affordable option, but its Pro and Business plans still fall within the mid-range, IMHO.
Here are some tools offered by XOVI’s developers:
Keywords - Provides details and analysis of the most important terms.
Monitoring - Offers daily keyword monitoring of your own key terms.
On-Page - Analyzes and optimizes all the most important on-page factors.
Backlinks - Analyzes and tracks all the backlinks of a domain.
Disavow - Detects Google's penalties so you can prevent or remove them.
Search Analytics - Identifies traffic sources and visitor flow.
SEA - Analyzes and optimizes your Google Ads ads.
Reporting - Provides white-label and personalized reports for you and your clients.
XOVI can serve as a supplementary tool to cross-validate data from your main platform. If you work mostly with European locations, you’re probably interested in European databases. Based on this fact and on XOVI’s toolset, I think their prices are competitive for both US and EU-based markets.
Website: https://www.xovi.com/
Pricing (monthly): XOVI Pro €99; XOVI Business €149; XOVI Enterprise €499

SISTRIX

Sistrix is another famous European SEO platform with a compelling solution for Google, Amazon, TikTok, and YouTube. In fact, the main reason why I added SISTRIX to this list was because they provide you with tons of tools for comfortable cross-platform work. As with the previous tool, there is a pretty big price gap between the starter plan and the professional options, but you will be pleasantly surprised by their fully open API and helpful support channels via telephone. What about their toolset?
01) Rank Tracking
02) Backlink Check
03) Keyword Discovery
04) Auto Reporting
05) Content Discovery
06) API Interface
07) Google Ads analysis
08) Technology Analysis
Now if you include the fact that they have a huge European database, you're looking at a wonderful and expansive platform for analyzing your SEO campaigns. But as I mentioned earlier, if you want all the premium features, be prepared to pay a hefty price tag for them.
Website: https://www.sistrix.com/
Pricing (monthly): START €99; PLUS €199; PROFESSIONAL €349; PREMIUM €599

Ubersuggest

What about Neil Patel’s SEO platform? Sure, Ubersuggest existed before Google, and even before the internet in its entirety. But let's avoid the meme part. I’m confident that Ubersuggest can provide you with the variety of tools you need and at a really competitive price level. Take a look:
01) SEO Analyzer
02) AnswerThePublic
03) A/B Testing Calculator
04) Ubersuggest
05) Ads Grader
06) Backlinks Checker
07) AI Rewriting Tool
08) AI Sentence Rewriter
09) AI Paragraph Rewriter
10) Website Traffic Checker
11) Chrome Extension
12) Open Graph Generator
Neil Patel also provides his customers with a solid free plan. Thanks to this plan, you can check out most of the features from its paid plans. Ubersuggest is the cheapest SEO tool here, but it is still not a free tool. For this reason, we hope that this database shows us much more accurate data.
Website: https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/
Pricing (monthly): Individual $29; Business $49; Enterprise $99
That just about sums it up! There are more tools out there, but these ones were the best I could find at a price that won’t break the bank. Now, let's talk about the SEO tools you use. Have you ever used two or three SEO tools simultaneously? Please share your thoughts on this topic!

Peace to you.
This will be a special article and one of my favorite issues, the transformation and finding oneself. And an article to add to my “deep metaphysics” series.
As a rule, I don’t refer to anyone, ever, because I only read fiction. My quirk is this: I only work with sources from subtle plains. And when people ask me what is worth reading on eso-, exo-, and other metaphysics, I have very little to say. But to be completely honest, there are still two works that can be considered as a reference for what our project with Grassar is dealing with. That is Lao Tzu and Carlos Castaneda. These two personalities are so distant from each other in geography, time, and style that probably no further is possible. But I will clearly prove to you today that they wrote exactly the same thing, however, due to the “highly toxic esoteric” style, much (if not everything) of what they wrote is simply not perceived by the audience. And I’ll probably have the nerve to join these honorable seniors, since I write about the same things, only I write in an exoteric style, that is simple, understandable and for a wide audience. In fact, many articles of the Marginal Metaphysics Project simply reinvent Taoism and reinterpret its ideas in a clear and modern language. As Carlos did in his time. And the few lesser-known descendants. And here we can note one interesting thing, echoing strongly with Lao: if something is true, it does not need to be fixed in words or texts. In simple words, anyone following the same path will come to the same result, while the believers of untruth will all come to different conclusions. Lao, Carlos, and us all came to the same conclusion, and I read Lao post factum (honestly).
But be it Lao, the “colored emperors” of China, or their Latin American successor, all stepped on the same rake. That is: the fool-proofing that went out of control. Let’s say you invented (or learned somewhere) how to escape from the dense world and move to a more subtle one, preferably without being barefoot. What are you going to do with this information? A certain social altruism tells us to share it, but there is one big problem with this: competition. Suppose you’ve found a lucky cheat code for moving to better conditions in a rich faraway country. And your imagination pictures you settling down there, a mysterious and exotic foreigner from faraway lands.
But it’s creepy to go alone, so you need partners and companions. And how do you find these partners without being followed by 2 billion idiots who you taught yourself this cheat code? Otherwise it would happen that you arrived, and then all these citizens rushed after … And now you’re not the only exotic one around here, just “another annoying transplant getting on nerves”. What to do? How do you give without giving? How to share without giving in hand and verifying reliable ones, without revealing all the information? Both authors have applied a trick that I personally find disgusting and only add to the problems. They’ve made reading their works so difficult that either the most resistant will stay to the end, or those who really understand what’s the deal with the text and sweep away the unnecessary stuff.
Both failed to account for human idiocy. And it turned out badly. Idiots still managed to read till the end, got tangled in the haze of illusions, allusions, metaphors, and hints, and drew many of their own conclusions. The Chinese version then also got tangled up in its own robe and began to mix in politics and ideas of mass control, and then eventually got lost in the thicket of conflicting schools. This is the problem with any “esoteric” literature. It is so fuzzy and shaky in its meaning that, like in the famous poem about reading people, each asshole sees something very different. And if everyone sees something different, then the objective picture falls apart and gets blurred, because these assholes then discredit both the author and his message. Time passes and some new idiots start teaching everyone how to properly understand what they’ve read and it’s all over… N years pass and sane people, having listened to the fools broadcasting the ideas of doctrine in goofy translation, already smirk grimly: Ah, so you’re one of “those”, well, I seeeee.
Reading Castaneda is a pain in the ass. What can be expressed in four or five pages turns into a dozen books, where you endlessly wade through a jumble of metaphors, allusions, flashbacks, and going in circles over the same thing. It is unreasonably difficult to read. The works of Colored Emperors and Lao Tzu are easier to read, but they too are full of metaphors, references, and local Asian memes just over halfway through. And it’s very difficult to understand many things out of context. And yes, that’s exactly what the authors expected, that “who needs it, will understand it”, but… I think this approach is wrong. We have a frustratingly large number of dumb people around us, very dumb people, ultimately dumb people. The fact that they have lived to their years and have not killed themselves accidentally with a dessert spoon is more a credit to medicine, the humanization of society and pure luck than to their own. Anyone who works in the service industry and with people would shake my calloused hand with bitten fingernails. Therefore, this foolproofing is simply unnecessary: tell them straight to their face – they still won’t understand. About 90 percent of people will not understand what you’re saying and what you’re trying to achieve. So we wanted the best, but it turned out as usual.

Three Tao questions

But, that’s grumbling, let’s get to the point. What if we turn the generalized works of Taoism and the works of Castaneda into the language of exotericism? That is, make it not a mystical supreme knowledge for the selected few, but a simple, intelligible text that even a schoolboy would understand.
In fact, both teachings are aimed at the same goal: escape from the dense world and evolve to levels above. Only Lao Tzu gives this cheat-code via the dense, and Carlos gives it via the subtle. Both teachings operate with three questions, the answers to which, in essence, make everyone conscious and whole. But it takes a lot of effort to extract these questions from the texts full of fillers.
Question 1: Who are you?
Question 2: What are you?
Question 3: What is the purpose of your life?
Sounds easy, doesn’t it? The questions are very simple, and the dumber the reader is, the faster and more certain he will answer them. The trouble is, if you scratch your head, you won’t have to SEARCH, you’ll literally have to CREATE the answers, because you simply don’t have them.
Let’s review each one.
The majority of people confidently answer their name to the first question. This is a widespread answer, you can check it yourself. But here’s the question: does this name describe YOU? It’s just some set of letters, often from an unknown foreign language, which your parents gave you. And they called you this name before they recognized you as a person, i.e. they haven’t even roughly correlated it with you. It turns out that your name by all parameters is some foreign element from the outside world, given by strangers. It says nothing about you. So who are you?
Profession? Appearance? Achievements? What is the answer? Does my profession, crooked nose, or being overweight characterize ME? Does my face = Me or not? The irony of this question is that it has no wrong answer, any answer will be right if you gave it by yourself, and wrong if it came from the outside. Not society, not parents, not mentality, but you yourself will do it. Who are you? For yourself.
Things only get worse with the second question. While a person is young, while he is growing and developing, a million factors aggressively influence him: parents, school, teachers, peers around, the media, culture, mental field… And in fact it turns out that most of our qualities (well, which we “identify” in ourselves), are obtained by us from the outside. Along with the name. That is, if your mother thinks you are handsome, your teachers at school call you an idiot, and the TV shows some ideal image, which you do not correspond to, it cannot help but affect you. It affects your self-description. But if you sit down and think about this question, it turns out that 80 percent (at best) of your qualities are externally imposed. And this works both for good and for bad. You can convince a worthless person that he is exceptional and cool, or you can kick a gifted person to the point of breaking the back of his self-esteem. And the awful thing comes out – you don’t know who or what you are. The more you dig, the more you find other people’s and external.
Lao presents this thesis as a metaphor: It is not the walls that define the house, but the emptiness within it. Simply put, we are interested in the emptiness of the cup, not in the cup itself, because we want to pour something into it. The emptiness is more valuable than the cup, because it is perspective: nothing can fit into a full cup anymore. Accordingly, a person building himself must also be “empty.” If he is already full of other people’s dogmas, samples, not his own opinions and thoughts, then there will be no place for his own. You smell the Archaic Heart project, don’t you?
And this idea of the empty container is clearly seen in Castaneda and his erasing of personal history. He suggests that you completely erase yourself and your identity, because in essence it is not yours. The unconscious person is made up of other people’s opinions, other people’s names, ascribed parameters and false goals. It needs an empty space for your personal story and yourself to emerge. And Archaic here agrees saying that you should also throw away all the smart books, because they fill what should be filled with subtle vision and your own thoughts. And only in the emptiness a new personality is born, which can already be pumped.
An important aspect is that one must begin to build oneself in a certain state. Lao writes, “…The perfect wisdom of the sage is to make life satisfied, not to have beautiful things”. That is, one must first provide a base, be fed, clothed, get a good night’s sleep, have a home and security, and then think about spiritual things (checkpoint – article “On Spirituality”). A hungry and poor man will be angry and obsessed with having more expensive things, gold, cars-apartments, because his base has never been satisfied. He’s got a hungry, greedy drive for goods, so he can’t level up. He must first calm down, get his mundane and his psyche in order, and only then start working on improving his “spirit.” A conscious person is adoptable, relaxed, and open to everything.
And the third and most nightmarish question is what you are for. What are you living for? At first glance, it’s simple, at second glance, it’s not. And on the third you start screaming in existential dread. Most people answer this question without thinking too much, something like “Well, I live to have a good and decent time, not to be in need, and to raise children…” To get you started screaming, let’s turn the question into a metaphor: your life is a road, and you’re driving from point A to point B. Where are you going? What is the purpose of this trip? “To live well” is a description of the car you’re driving, you can’t “drive to have a nice car,” that doesn’t represent the purpose of the trip. “For the children” – the passengers in the car, and they will certainly leave you on the way (everyone is alone in the cemetery), that is, your fellow travelers. So are family and friends. Do I drive so that other people will travel with me? This is quite a purpose. Money, life – it’s gasoline, it’s HOW you drive and WHAT. And the question is where. What does the end point look like, where you can say, “that’s it, I got where I wanted to”?

Destiny and Non-Doing

And this whole “find your destiny” thing is just that. It cannot be found, it can only be created, and only by yourself, as you personally feel it. It is the feeling of purpose, not the thinking of it rationally, because “the Tao spoken in words is not the true Tao” ( I mean, by others or rationally), i.e., the inner purpose cannot be set by someone or something from the outside. Only you yourself feel where and for what you are heading. And without it, everything is for nothing. Everything, Karl!
Both authors, in fact, lead to this thought: who are you and what are you for? When you answer these questions, there will be a kind of synchronization with space and the elements, and then everything is a piece of cake for you. That’s it, you’re out of the system, you’re conscious, and you can bounce in any direction. You can do nothing, but simply have a clear purpose in your head, under which space will independently adjust. The very non-doing that both authors write about. Most people live without a purpose and, in fact, float like a flower on a river: where the waves have carried them, there they float. Your own purpose is “heavy”, it immediately sets the vector of movement of life. I live to achieve this. This means that where I live, who I live with, how I live, everything is secondary, it is just a decoration for my way to my purpose. And if you don’t have a purpose, then space won’t help you. What is there to help you with if you yourself don’t know why you consume oxygen? The word “Tao” in this teaching means this very purpose and its synchronization with the world around it, and countries, things, beasts, gods, and anyone else except unconscious people have a Tao. By the way, there can be more than one purpose, why not.
There’s a funny thing here that amuses me personally. Many people who start working on themselves (yes, many people do it intuitively and without any smartypants like me) always want to turn themselves into sweethearts. Roughly speaking – “good ones”. Who told you that a conscious person is a nice guy with altruistic goals? Some jerk with a high ego and plans to destroy the world could be a more conscious individual than any empty-headed “I-Live-For-My-Kids” moron. The purpose should be yours personally. If you know who you are and what you’re doing, it’s extremely difficult to knock you off your path because you’ll simply compare what you know about yourself to what others tell you and offer you. And reject what you and your purpose don’t need.
And on the way to these three pillars of information, you may spend years and decades. To weigh everything, discard the unnecessary, add what is needed, and finally formulate why it was all necessary. You will have to go through many waves of transformation and traps of the system, look your fears and weaknesses in the eye, resist the system and society… Lao writes “The fast wind doesn’t blow all morning, the heavy rain doesn’t last all day.” That is, everything changes, even the best and worst periods change, and people and things require renewal and rethinking. Checkpoints are a scattering of articles on transformation. Taoism also offers a very correct criterion for evaluating things: to look at the entire spectrum at once. You cannot “eradicate evil” because then it will not be clear what good is, you cannot remove darkness – light will disappear. Checkpoint is an article about the “Karmic yoke and the slices”.
If we describe Castaneda’s concept in a single paragraph, he basically suggests doing the same thing, but also working on connections in the subtle world and accelerating processes with spiritual practices, psychedelics, energies, and kicks in the butt from the other side. Like, people have access to one slice of the subtle a priori: it’s a dream. Okay, 1 is better than nothing, so we become conscious, jump into the dream with a subtle and conscious body, and create a nest for ourselves on the other side where we’ll end up after the death of the dense body. It’s an interesting view on Taoism, it kind of continues the idea, but adds a Void coloring to it. Technically, it works, because the conscious person is perceived as an equal in the subtle, someone can hitch a ride with him/her and help him/her with CoML.
So that’s it. 20 paragraphs and you know in general 2 huge, fundamental concepts of humanity. Concepts and teachings, but not a religion. Avoid religion on your way, that’s already advice from the stick voiders. What is the difference between religion and teaching, specifically Taoism? Religion (any) tells you “You are a miserable worm, a little child, but there is a cool god/goddess/guru standing in the corneon the wall, and if you will be with him, then you will take your place in the hierarchy and cease to be a worm.” And the teaching (intelligible, they can be stupid too), tells you: you are not a worm, because you don’t exist yet, you must create yourself, regardless of the resistance of society, parents, the world, and even the gods. Because there is no hierarchy, the world is not a mountain with a Main Important Mug on top. The world is horizontal, with many mountains. You can become a mountain yourself, or you can be just a stone in the structure of someone else’s mountain. The choice is yours.
(c) Mylene Maelinhon \ Materials from the Marginal Metaphysics Project

So lets talk legend Stereotypes, people will act all shocked when the Stereotype by definition a Biased and Oversimplified view of people, things, or groups, this post is meant to in turn take some level of Humor into stereotypes going by fucking I don't know release date.

Do not take this serious or use these as insults or use these assumptions to actually apply to people in game, it makes you look like an ass.

Bödvar:

You know at a certain level of things we -for some reason- assume people play Bodvar are basic which I don't really feel is really bloody accurate, he's the mascot sure, but you'll find everyone, their mom, and their possibly racist uncle, and definitely racist uncle plays lance or scythe, which leaves us with Bödvar, which I guess leans into one of three main camps:
1)Someone who appreciates a all around kind of character, like odds are bodvar would have had all his stats be equal if the point requirement wasn't 22, a light weapon and a heavy weapon.
2)Someone who's new and was preconditioned into buying and playing him by the "box art" and everything else doesn't hurt he's really cheap too
3)They want to play a honest to god Viking in the Valhalla themed Fighting game.

Cassidy

You either only care about Dex or you're scared of bugs. So Cassidy really only had two things going for her from the beginning: She had a High Dex Hammer, and she's western themed. And with Yumiko having not as high dex, but still high, and better speed (and sigs) and Reno being just a more original and interesting western character leaves us with people who either really want a high dex (and shite speed) or people who are scared of bugs... Which, fair enough.

Orion

It's going to be sig spam, like yeah it's the stereotype of Orion, at a certain point I believe he was free for everyone which likely didn't help when new players learned mashing the shiny attacks as the piss man made the bad people die. I mean sure there might be more to a Orion main but the Stereotype is sig spammer.

Vraxx

Sadists but not really all that more than a Orion, most of them can't use blasters which is sad, and otherwise it's mostly just spamming to annoy people, quick to get these guys mad though, can deal it but can't take it.

Gnash

You can assume that you're playing in 2v2s if you see a Gnash otherwise why bother, in 1v1s his sigs and weapons don't really jive well with the mode... So I mean odds are you can assume one of two things is going on with a Gnash in 1v1s his Duo is offline or he's new

Queen Nai

Queen Nai is weird because every person ever I see main her probably smells flammable with how much they sweat, and yeah that is despite the fact she's incredibly bad, you carry her off halfway from stage and let her fall, and you can expect her to invite you to a custom lobby to call you all sorts of slurs. Other than that I can assume they like free for all.

Hattori

I mean it's easy to say weaboo and get it over with but there's also a excessively high amount of sweaty Hatorri's who either run Kitsune or Kill Thrill and unlike Queen Nai Hattori actually isn't completely awful, so you take that as you will.

Sir Roland

Sir Roland is pretty much the most well rounded heavyweight legend being also associated with spam, namely the horse sig which fair enough but doesn't stop it from being annoying your most interesting thing you'll see with Sir Rolands is they tend to be kind of passive for some reason no clue why.

Scarlet

This is one of many legends who just for some reason attract a group of people I refer to as the right hand only type, in that I mean they can only use one of their weapons, normally for most legends that share this trait it can be a tossup of either or, for Scarlet it's always Lance so you know try to keep them on hammer because they can't use the thing, they'll get pretty mad really fast.

Thatch

Either they're snake eyes in which case tryhards of a different caliber, and Will really just keep running away before randomly hitting you, not quite passive but damn annoying. If it's not you can usually assume they'll spam the blasters DSig, pretty easy to kill if you can get in close.

Ada

Sig spam, I mean really she's like Thatch in that she's as durable as one-ply toilet paper and has rather fast sigs, not much to explain, odds are they're not going to do any complex spear combos.

Sentinel

Hipster, I mean sure you've also got some memers using the president skin and beating your ass as Barack Obama but that's it. Sentinel has always been mid and I guess it's hard to be nerfed directly if you don't ever get any big buffs.

Lucien

They're Meta slaves, before that people really just liked going fast maybe some fascination with his intro laugh, but outside of that it's because Luna plays him.

Teros

Assholes, they like being assholes to people and they spam sigs to piss others off and unlike other sig spammers where it's either just the only thing their brain associates with winning, or Vraxx where someone hurt them, Teros mains are just assholes, there is a small subset of old-school Teros players who use the Ready to Riot Skin who are pretty chill but otherwise just expect a lot of BM

Brynn

I mean she's the female equivalent to Bödvar light and heavy weapon simple sigs, cheap, well rounded stats with instead of the 2 extra being spaced out are both lumped into speed, they really like spears DSig and the Axe Sig that also spins, they really like Recoveries, all too fascinated with spinning, which if it were 2017 they'd probably be the kids with the fidget spinners that Americans really had a phase with.

Asuri

It's the furry character if they main Asuri they use the furry skins on everyone that has one, even the chest skins.

Barraza

Barraza mains are really dedicated and it's like this: if there's a 1000 Barraza mains theyre living it, if there's 1 Barraza main they've combined into the ultimate Barazza Main, and if there's no Barazza mains they're dead... You killed them all, what's bloody wrong with you? Otherwise Barraza mains are just weird.

Ember

Egirls like Ember because she has a wolf, Eboys like her because egirls like her, if you like elves she's really only choice outside of Dusk and that one Val skin.

Azoth

All too fascinated by "Boner" Jokes or in general skeleton puns all around, outside of that they really like Bow NSig since it just pisses people off, and by that I mean this is me... I'm sorry.

Koji

You know that Buzz Lightyear meme with the whole isle of Buzz Lightyears, it's that but with people believing they're different from the other 2 Japanese Sword-legends, sure they might be very right handed into bow or Sword but doesn't change them from being pretty boring.

Ulgrim

Two flavors of Ulgrim, 2v2 sweatlords or they're running the Macho Man skin and often they're pretty toxic all around but not in the sig spam into taunting type but they're quick to piss off and lead to them being just insufferable after the game. Generally they're all weirdos like Barazza

Diana

They're hipsters but like the kind that basically are the kind that say "Oh at least I'm not a mordex main" and that's really it, sure there's the Boomie fans but they're still all playing on 1v1s and hating on every Mordex main they see

Jhala

Okay so odds are they're using a crossover skin or they're in 2s otherwise I have nothing really to say, I guess they tend to die fast but that's more due to the stats.

Kor

I mean they're weird but not the same kind of weird that Barazza and Ulgrim mains are weird, they're rather nice just... Weirdos, they probably don't care about Meta if they still main Kor, they'll often be all too interested in telling you his name is just "Rok" (as in Rock) backwards but otherwise they're fine.

Wu Shang

Same kind of people as Teros mains, in that they're often assholes, but there's alot more exceptions this time namely with crossover skins, and chest skins generally are fine. The Ranno Skin you get the same weirdos that main Kor, Wu Shang the Breaker strangely enough you'll rarely see them use sigs, they'll be toxic if you be toxic first and hold grudges, but don't piss them off and they'll behave. The worst Wu Shang to deal with is perfect Wu Shang, they'll be as much of a asshole as normal Wu Shang but with a ego.

Val

Same story as Lucien just with MegD instead of Luna as such they'll be passive but the second you play passive back they'll just leave.

Ragnir

Sig spam but it's just sad flavored they'll just die to dumb decisions and rather easy to fight, they'll often right hand one of their weapons and end up either unable to kill or unable to hit depending on which weapon they use.

Cross

Formerly the Meta the Meta slaves now leave it to the real Cross mains, which are just... Edgy really I mean not like 2016 edge but really like the demonic theme because it's cool and shit.

Mirage

Mirage is in the same boat as Diana but they actually want to not be associated with Mordex Mains, but just can't help it, they tend to do all the same shit as the Mordex mains and so it's Kinda funny kinda sad

Nix

Okay so they right hand hard they're either unable to use scythe or blasters and so it's really hard to say how they act when that's the one thing I see.

Mordex

You know what the Stereotype is, you know it and Fenrir Mordex knows it too and yet they don't want to change, and it's like all the worst things lumped into one legend. Meta Slave (Not really anymore) Toxic Right handed Spammer Passive Basic And I just imagine the one kid who saw Mordex and was like "ooh a really cool werewolf legend" has to be lumped into this because every Fenrir Mordex. It's hard to say that Mordex isn't associated with a lot of bad stuff.

Yumiko

Okay so we got 3 things here depending on wildly different Variables: All around a lot of people who main Yumiko can abuse her shit really well, often they don't go for uber complex combos, and instead favor smaller consistent ones, if they were more ballsy we could probably see Yumiko in pro one day when Hammer isn't completely piss.
There's the people who saw the last type of Yumiko and decided to spam dsigs and die so they refuse to use the sigs all together.
Then there's people who are just here to make others suffer put the spirit of a Vraxx main into a Yumiko and you get this guy, they're skill varries but they're assholes

Artemis

Orion mains who wanted to say they're not just spamming sigs and safe strings with lance and spear and so they do that with lance and scythe.

Caspian

They overuse sigs, not spam them but you'll usually see when they try to go for sigs really easily and it can be kind of funny to just punish it and let them try again because they just get tunnel visioned and it's kinda funny

Sidra

With characters who were released with a new weapon often people don't just associate that weapon with their Identity but for Sidra really that's all there is, I mean there's pirate stuff too but that's not really whay most people thing about.

Xull

They're big numbers type they want to KO fast and odds are they're perpetually in a Rush, some really like the funny 10 attack and then they die because of it but hey you kill fast you die fast.

Kaya

Okay so there's two main camps to lump Kayas in: They're there because she's Meta, and whatever that's boring but hey. They liked her before she was meta for whatever reason, but I still take it with a grain of salt.

Isaiah

Surprising no one it's also hipsters but also people who are way too into American military, boot licking types they tend to overuse cannon.

Jiro

How many people actually use Jiro's sword most of the time I just see the Scythe out if they have sword it's because it's their first weapon pull or they just respawned, the same story as Hattori and Koji but with more Anime stuff attached more comfortably a weaboo character.

Lin Fei

Lin fei is a odd one she's pretty much the character that almost always is forgotten as the most forgotten legend and I guess that's because most people see her once or twice a day and and is like "Okay" not much to say about her mains because really what can you say about a Lin Fei main,

Zariel

Spam, I mean not really there's very little to Zariel main, the audience of a angel isn't lost on me it's just rather dull, people who play him over use sigs but never just spam side sigs and hope it hits.

Rayman

I mean you know It's just mostly sig spamming and weirdos who play Rayman but I guess there's Rayman fans who played the actual games I guess.

Dusk

These guys are weirdos, not toxic weirdos, not cute weirdos, just weird, I mean really who's really going to sig spam his shit, or only use orb or spear it's not much to say.

Fait

Fait is kinda boring and her mains reflect this, I mean it's nice they're not Toxic at least but that's really not doing all that much in terms of intrigue.

Thor

The word goofball is what I associate with Thor they'll over use the dumb sigs thor has and do the dumbest things, it sometimes works but most of the time nah, these guys are here for fun first and foremost.

Petra

The weirdest thing is how aggressive Petra is represented but at the same time how many people who main her are kind of passive doing very little to initiate combat.

Vector

Yeah this is the one people say no one mains yet I've seen my fair share of Vector mains, they're just spammy as most other Lance Legends, it's just weird sigs this time.

Volkov

I guess if I had to say who I main outside of Azoth it'd be Volkov nowadays, and as such I don't know if I can say anything without seeming particularly Biased, I mean it's scythe so inevitably it attracts a crowd, but there's also axe which turns them away rather quickly.

Onyx

Who the fuck mains Onyx enough to carve out a identity with her, really? She's not bad or anything she's just not what comes to mind when I want high defense or gauntlets or Cannon, so Onyx mains what's your deal.

Jae Yun

2 types of Jae Yun mains come to mind: K-Pop stans and people who use Great sword as a crutch, I mean there's something to be said for representation of Larger body types which is nice, I guess.

Mako

Scalies? I mean I feel like Great sword was nerfed really hard when Mako was getting play time as were her sigs, which weren't really good in the first place so I don't know I guess it leaves scalies.

Magyar

I mean it's a giant evil suit of haunted armor that's cool as fuck, not much else to say, I guess for the mains they don't like getting knocked off stage too far, and probably like creeping other people out but they suck at it and it just seems a bit naff.

Reno

The cooler Cowperson (cowbug?) It's hard to say that the people who main Reno don't have taste especially with how good Reno's skins all are, hard to say there's a bad skin in Reno's collection. The players might ligh orb DSig a bit much I guess, I don't know really.

Munin

I guess you can say Meta Slave with bow and Scythe some pretty clean sigs, sure but I also just don't know the name of "Bird Furries" so I guess "Bird Furries" will do.

Arcadia

Strangely enough Arcadia attracts the same kind of people who you'd find with Teros or Wu Shang, which is weird considering she's a fairy.

Ezio

Ezio is pretty cool but he attracts obnoxious people with his sigs and being Ezio Auditore. People who play him can be kind of bullheaded but they mean well.

Tezca

Most Tezca mains are just rude for some reason, and tend to just be assholes but for them some reason it's always personal

Thea

She's new so you'd think there wouldn't be a stereotype but well it's sig spam.

If you like dry humor or if you like any perhaps cringe, millennial/gen X attempt at humor, feel free to read on (I waive liability for any lost time if you realize you dont have a similar sense of humor to me). This is a compilation of all the things my course instructors have said that I found amusing/funny. bonus points if you can figure out my major (its prob not that hard but if you wanna procrastinate studying for finals, have at it).
"mu is the chemical potential. or my cat, it's up to you" - prof 3
"it's like dancing with a partner who doesn't want to dance with you" - prof 5
"this is a serious acid that deserves some respect" - prof 2
"if the protagonist superhero is vector spaces, then the superpower here is linear transformations" - prof 4
“math terms not mom terms” - prof 3
"those of us who can make molecules, you could put us in one building. it's a tall building in New York, but it's one building" - prof 2
"it's a heat engine! there it is..." draws a shitty circle - prof 3
"congrats we all survived the tornado warning, let's go back to real things like cyclohexanes" - prof 1
"like an iPhone for molecules" - prof 2
"so that would be the tall, skinny matrix" - prof 4
"I have to figure out what movie I'm going to watch while you guys take your final" - prof 3
"these molecules are like nature's lego kit" - prof 2
"let's assume we're on a budget. we can't use calculus" - prof 4
"those p orbitals are all talking to each other" - prof 2
"if you want inversion, you just have to add a little magic dust to this reaction. And in this case, the magic dust is pyridine" - prof 1
"like chat GPT3, it's not always correct" - prof 2
"I'm going to guess that someone attempted to meme us" - TA
"I am not encouraging you to make meth, but that you can make molecules" - prof 1
"in a sense, AI was failing on purpose to succeed” - prof 2
"Apparently [name of important guy] dreamed of this structure, and so he proposed it" - prof 1

Hello, badmathematics! Today I will present you a (surprisingly rare) badmathematics from the beloved Facebook group Mathematical Mathematics Memes. The badmaths in question is not the Facebook post itself, but rather the bizarre replies to one of the comments in this post.
We start with a comment asking for the proof of the recent aperiodic monotiling, with a joking mention of accepting it like Euclid's fifth postulate.
The comment that starts it all.
The replies are, however, something else:
We live in a mathematical regime where 1+1=2 is not proved.
Of course, anyone who had taken a course on set theory knows immediately that this is false. The statement "1+1=2" is probably proved every time it is taught, starting with the discussion of Peano axioms and whatnot. Furthermore, Principia Mathematica did in fact prove it, not just merely mention it in passing. The badmaths-er's point that 2 is simply defined as 1+1 is also inaccurate. 2 is defined as the successor of 1, and it takes a bit of work (albeit just unpacking the definition) that 1+1 = 2.^{Foreshadowing...}
I would go a bit further and digress that, most mathematicians who are not diehard logicism fans don't prove "1+ 1= 2" to believe that indeed 1+ 1= 2. The proof is just a mathematical sanity check that their mathematical systems of ZFC/Peano are working as intended and agree with their knowledge that 1+1=2.
There is also some nonsense about units. The moment when you take two animals and count the total number of legs, you are not doing a mathematical addition anymore, and so is not a contradiction to mathematics.
And for the last paragraph, no, that's not what the incompleteness theorems are about. A proof by contradiction is a valid rule of inference in classical logic and hence works in systems with or without consistency. (If it is inconsistent then we can prove anything anyways.) We care about the soundness of systems when we want our theorems to be true, and the incompleteness theorems say nothing about soundness, but rather that we cannot tell that within the systems themself. The badmaths is conflating the provability and truth of a statement.
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In the next replies, the badmaths-er is implying that the successor of numbers is a mistaken notion, and taking a limit is evaluating [the expressions?] at the true successor, whatever that means. Obviously, this is not how we think about limits and the successor function. It seems like he is confused about infinitesimal, which is often told as "the smallest number next to zero" and the successor function of a natural number.
Extra sweet is the implication that modern mathematics is taught by people with agenda, from Big Logic probably.
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Classic conflation about two different meanings of the word "number". It is true that 2 is the natural number after 1, but 1.5 and phi are real numbers, not natural numbers. No contradiction here.
1+1 is undefinable without unit specifications.
Wow, the first statement is already false, and the "for instance" does not relate to it in any way. Units might be useful when applying mathematics to sciences, but it is not how mathematicians think of numbers as a unitless, abstract quantity, or an element of some particular sets.
\lim_{x \to 0^+} 1/x = largest possible infinity
It seems like the poster tries to define the "true" successor as the infinitesimal number next to a number. You change an established terminology and old usage no longer matches, mathematics must be wrong! Also, the largest possible infinity does not make sense as a limit on the extended real line, such a notion does not exist. And again Gödel said nothing about successor function being a wrong approach.
1 is Aleph-naught, apparently.
Of course, it goes without saying that 1 is not aleph-nought. His claim is not-even-wrong, simply put. And anyone who dares to disagree is just blindly following dogma.
But why is 1/0 simultaneously the largest possible infinity, and is still aleph-null, which is smaller than 1=aleph-naught? Nobody can answer this conundrum.
6 and -6 are not numbers because they have the same number component.
In the last reply before the banhammer strike, the badmaths-er claims that 6 and -6 are not numbers, because they "have the same number component". It seems like he regards the minus sign as an indication of directions in a physical, vectorial sense. Numbers are not vectors, and signs did not convey a sense of direction. In elementary physics, you first fix a reference frame or direction, only then the sign of a number has a meaning as an indication of direction. Note again this is how mathematics is applied, with physics' conventions etc., and not how mathematicians conceive of numbers.
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This last one is from his participation answers taken from the moderators. Mathematics is in shambles.

Canadian news For Week #27, May 1 2023

Hey guys, this week was an impersonation of the everything is fine meme. Bank bailouts, strong employment with entrenched inflation, the FED hiking but considering a pause next FOMC, Gold to $CAD hitting an all-time high, etc.
This shit sends more mixed signals than bud light and both sides are pissed off now.
To note: Buffet and Munger had their annual meeting during the weekend, always a good idea to read about it or straight watch it.
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What happened last week?

• Monday: FRC bank got bailed out by regulators, Then JPM bought the assets for 10b (was worth 200b+ two months ago)
• Tuesday: FOMC
• Wednesday: FOMC = 25 bps hikes, but the market is pricing in a pause next meeting
• Thursday:x
• Friday: US payrolls coming at +253k jobs

What to watch for next week?

• Monday: US consumer inflation expectations
• Tuesday: x
• Wednesday: CPI
• Thursday: PPI
• Friday: x

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Earning season coming to an end
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this is what's breaking banks
91% pricing a pause

Monday

Liberty Defense - SCAN.v
Liberty Announces Trial of HEXWAVE at Los Angeles International Airport for Aviation Worker Screening

announce that Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) today began a customer evaluation of the HEXWAVE™ system for one week at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for potential use conducting employee screening at its airport facilities.
LAWA operates and maintains three airports, LAX, Van Nuys Airport, and the LA/Palmdale Regional Airport, employing thousands of aviation workers with many access points at its facilities. LAWA maintains its own police department, the Los Angeles Airport Police, responsible for the security programs at its airports. The HEXWAVE will be deployed for evaluation in the field during real-time security operations at LAX in the Tom Bradley International Terminal.
LAX is one of the busiest and biggest airports, acting as an international hub which served 65 million passengers in 2022.

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A2Z - AZ.v
A2Z Partners with HaStok to Deploy 1,000 Smart Carts to their 40 Locations Nationwide

announce a new customer partnership with HaStok Concept Ltd. ("Hastok"), one of Israel's leading home design and household essentials chain with 40 stores across the country. The partnership marks a significant expansion for A2Z's smart cart solution into a new vertical outside of grocery retail.
The purchase order is for 1,000 smart carts and is comprised of an upfront payment, a guaranteed monthly payment, and a revenue share agreement on added value solutions, such as advertising.

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Tuesday

ARway.ai - ARWY.cse
ARway.ai Announces Magic Leap AR Glasses Integration

is disrupting the Augmented Reality (AR) Wayfinding market with a no-code, no beacon augmented reality experience platform enabled by visual marker tracking. ARway is pleased to announce it has begun integration development and expects to complete the integration in the next 60-days for one of the most widely used AR Glasses; Magic Leap Glasses.
Magic Leap Glasses are an immersive enterprise AR device that combine the virtual and real worlds to create a unique and immersive user experience. These glasses use advanced technologies like eye-tracking, spatial sound, and 6DoF to enable users to interact with digital content in the real world. With the integration, the expansion of ARway's product offerings provide customers with greater device compatibility beyond mobile phones, which will increase use cases and application of technology.

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Danavation Technologies - DVN.cse
Danavation Technologies Announces Digital Smart Labels(TM) Installation into First TIMBER MART Location

Contract demonstrates further market share capture within the building and hardware retail segment
Opportunity to showcase the benefits of deploying Danavation's Digital Smart Labels™ to hundreds of additional potential customers who leverage TIMBER MART's competitive buying capabilities
announces that Danavation's Digital Smart Labels™ will be installed into the Earlton TIMBER MART location in Ontario, continuing the Company's market share capture within the building and hardware retail segment. This installation is expected to be completed by the first half of August.

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KWESST - KWE.v
KWESST Receives Notice of Contract Award for Approximately $20M over Five Years for Software Systems Development for Canadian Department of National Defence

Initial contract for five-year term with additional option years
Value to KWESST estimated at $4M per year minimum, $20M over initial five years
announce that it has received notification of contract award under a joint venture with two other defence industry partners, to perform software systems engineering work for the Canadian Department of National Defence ("DND"). The contract component for KWESST is valued at a minimum of $4M annually for a five-year initial contract followed by five, one-year option years. All amounts in Canadian dollars.
Under the terms of the joint venture, partners are combining their respective expertise in the Canadian and international defence Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance ("C4ISR") domain to offer specialized software development and integration solutions to the Canadian Army.

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Boralex - BLX.to
France: Power storage unit commissioned at the Plouguin wind farm

Anounce the commissioning of its second energy storage unit in France. The battery, which has a storage capacity of more than 3.3 MWh, is installed on the site of the Plouguin wind farm (Finistère, Brittany). Having just recently announced the commissioning of the Moulins du Lohan wind farm in the region, Boralex is delighted to be once again contributing to the advancement of renewable energy in Brittany.

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Wednesday

LION - LEV.to
LION ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF THE LION5 MEDIUM-DUTY ALL-ELECTRIC TRUCK

announced today the launch of the Lion5, an all-electric Class 5 truck powered by LionBattery packs, Lion's new in-house engineered and manufactured 800V battery packs.
Lion's all-electric Lion5 launched as the premier vehicle for last mile delivery and more with GVWR Class 5-to-6 crossover capabilities;
30,000 lb. max GCWR, 12,500 lb. max payload;
Powered by Lion's proprietary 800v LionBattery packs;
Driving range up to 200 miles;
Capability to be charged to 80% in 1.5 hours;
Cutaway configuration option enables seamless passthrough between the cab and any suitable body upfit;
Provisioned ePTO interface provides up to 32kW of high voltage access for body upfits.

Ballard Power Systems - BLDP.v
Ballard Power Systems announces order for 3.6 MW of fuel cells for zero emission stationary power

announced an order for 3.6 megawatts (MW) of fuel cell systems from a European provider of clean energy solutions for critical stationary power applications. Ballard expects to deliver 36 x 100 kW systems in 2023 and 2024.
Ballard's fuel cell systems will be integrated into stationary power units which provide zero-emission power for a range of applications, including construction sites, EV charging stations, and data centers.
This order represents a progression of the relationship between Ballard and its customer following the successful initial roll-out of stationary power units powered by Ballard fuel cells. Prior to this new purchase order, Ballard had supplied its customer with approximately 1.2 MW of fuel cells.

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Else - BABY.to
Else Expands to Canada’s Second Largest Retailer with Its Product Range in Over 600 Stores

announces that it has expanded its distribution in the Canadian market with Canada’s second largest food retailer. The national rollout includes Else Toddler Formula, Kids Shake Vanilla and Chocolate, and Original and Vanilla flavors of Baby Super Cereal.
Starting this month, Else’s innovative products will be available in more than 600 additional stores across Canada, across multiple banners and territories. This marks a significant milestone for Else Nutrition, which has been offering its products online in Canada since July 2022. Canadian consumers will now be able to find Else’s plant-based toddler formula, kids’ shakes and baby cereal on the shelves of another national grocery chain.

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Bee Vectoring Technologies - BEE.v
Bee Vectoring Technologies Gains Momentum in Key Washington Blueberry Region Through Collaboration with Two Major Distributors

announce that the Company has entered into collaboration with two major distributors in Northwest Washington, which is one of the largest blueberry producing regions in the United States. These two collaborations will play a pivotal role in the Company's strategy to gain significant momentum in sales and business development in this key blueberry producing region. That news comes on the heels of BVT signing its first grower customer in the region in April, which is one of the area's biggest and most influential players.
Northwest Washington has over 7,800 acres of blueberries under cultivation, compromising nearly half of the entire state's estimated 16,700 blueberry acres.

Thursday

Sparta Aligns/ Legend Power System’s - LPS.to / SAY.v
Sparta Aligns with Legend Power(R) System’s SmartGATE(TM) to Bring Commercial Property Customers a Robust Intelligent Platform to Reduce Energy Waste, Save Money, and Reduce Carbon Footprint

will give Sparta Group the ability to add SmartGATE™, a sophisticated active power management system to its suite of power quality optimization technologies.
Sparta's Energy division has been largely focused on helping industrial clients reduce energy waste, and now this agreement with Legend Power® means Sparta can expand its energy optimization efforts to a wider market of commercial clients.
SmartGATE™ uses a patented power regulation technology that extracts a percentage of electrical load, converts and analyzes it, rebuilds the electrical waveform, and then injects it back into a building's power system; thus, providing voltage regulation. This addresses core power attributes to optimize efficiency, reliability and reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions ("GHG"). Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT") estimate that on average, 30 percent of the energy used in commercial buildings is wasted. This creates a big opportunity for building managers to reduce operating costs and GHG.

OverActive Media - OAM.v
OverActive Media Signs Sponsorship Agreements with AMD and LG UltraGear™

. The Company has successfully secured new agreements with AMD and LG UltraGear™ and renewed relationships with Scuf Gaming (SCUF) and Nielsen Sports.
“We continue to build business momentum with the addition of AMD and LG UltraGear, and our renewal with SCUF. Each of these brands are best-in-class in their respective spaces and offer relevant and engaging opportunities and benefits for our audiences,” said Tyler Keenan, Senior Vice-President, Partnerships & Revenue. “In addition to our ability to reach esports and gaming fans, Nielsen Sports will elevate our partner offering through in-depth data and analytics, which we can now implement in Spain.”
OverActive continues to secure interest from new and existing partners across its Toronto Ultra of the Call of Duty League, Toronto Defiant of the Overwatch League and MAD Lions of the League of Legends European Championship esports franchises. The partnership highlights include the following:

First Hydrogen - FHYD.v
First Hydrogen Secures Green Hydrogen and Zero-Emission Vehicle Production Sites in Quebec

Announces that it has entered into an agreement with the City of Shawinigan for the purchase of two plots of land. First Hydrogen's project plan is to produce up to 35MW of green hydrogen using advanced electrolysis technology and distribute the hydrogen within the Montreal-Quebec City corridor for use with First Hydrogen's light commercial vehicles (LCV), as well as supporting other hydrogen-fuelled vehicles and applications in the province. First Hydrogen LCVs are planned to be assembled in Shawinigan for distribution throughout North America, in combination with the Company's Hydrogen-as-a-Service product offering. The assembly factory will be designed for an annual production of 25,000 vehicles per year when at full capacity. Feasibility engineering and related site development activities will start once the agreements are fully ratified by the city of Shawinigan municipal authorities, expected to be held sometime in May.
The Company previously announced that the City of Shawinigan, Quebec will be the location of its first green hydrogen ecosystem, which will include facilities for green hydrogen production and the assembly of First Hydrogen's zero-emission commercial vehicles. In addition to supporting the Quebec Government's Green Hydrogen and Bioenergy Strategy, First Hydrogen's plans strongly align with the future Energy Transition Valley Innovation Zone and the Hydrogen Research Institute (IRH) of the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières. Feasibility engineering will be completed by mid-2024, enabling subsequent project development steps for full project commercialization by 2026-27, aligning well with Provincial, Canadian and US emission reduction plans.

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Plurilock - PLUR.v
Plurilock Receives Cross-Sale Purchase Order for Flagship AI-Driven Cybersecurity Platform from Fortune 500 Company

announce that Plurilock received a purchase order for the Company's flagship software platform, 'Plurilock AI' from a Fortune 500 Catering, Facility Management and Clothing Services Provider (the "Customer").
The Company initially received a US$2.8 million three-year purchase order from the Customer as previously announced on October 3, 2022. This cross-sale order was secured through the existing client network of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Aurora Systems Consulting, Inc. ("Aurora"). According to the terms of the order, the Customer will license the continuous identity confirmation functionality of Plurilock AI.

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Wishpond - WISH.v
Wishpond adds to portfolio with acquisition of Essential Studio Manager

Wishpond Technologies CEO Ali Tajskandar joined Steve Darling from Proactive with news the company has made a key acquisition, adding certain assets of Essential Studio Manager (ESM) which is located in Wilmington, Delaware.
Tajskandar tells Proactive the ESM provides business management software, including invoicing and customer relationship management solutions for small businesses in the services industry.
The company has more than 150 customers, primarily comprised of small services-oriented businesses from various industries and Tajskandar feels there will be a great opportunity for cross selling between companies.
ESM will continue to operate as a separate brand but will be integrated into the Wishpond platform.

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Bird construction - BDT.to
Bird Awarded Canada's Tallest Modular Build

Announced today that it has been awarded a construction management services contract for BC Housing's Permanent Supportive Housing Initiative, located on East King Edward Avenue in Vancouver, BC. The 14-storey modular project is valued at approximately $50 million
The project is part of a joint agreement between the City of Vancouver, BC Housing, and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to deliver a minimum of 300 permanent supportive homes on five city-owned sites. The East King Edward Avenue building will consist of 109 studio homes, with the base of the building holding a commercial kitchen, dining room, multi-purpose room, and tenant laundry. The building will be collaboratively operated by Vancouver Native Housing Society and Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society.

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SolarBank - SUNN.cse
SolarBank Commences Trading on OTCQX Best Market

announce that it has today commenced trading on the OTC Market's prestigious tier, OTCQX International, under the symbol of SLBCF. Investors can find current financial disclosure and Real-Time Level 2 quotes for the Company on www.otcmarkets.com. To qualify for OTCQX, companies must meet high financial standards, follow best practice corporate governance and demonstrate compliance with applicable securities laws.

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Let's talk about potential, dogecoin has positive vectors in terms of efficiency and cheap transactions, and some other things, cute doge memes and staking out inter-planetary relations blah blah blah, I hope you are all having a nice day.

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My beloved.
I am an MG3KWS main, and the recent rework did a pretty good job at making the gun really bad. It's weak, clunky to handle, and not fun to use in general.
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First of all, the MG3KWS buffs:

• Damage buffed from 38-23 to 40-24.
• Ranges buffed from 50m-168m to 50m-170m.
• Velocity buffed from 2600 to 2700.

Now, here are the MG3KWS nerfs:

• Recoil pattern reworked. Now has an incredibly strong jump at the start then stabilizes, bouncing all over the place in an oval-like pattern. Massively less accurate.
  • Hipfire is also less accurate. Borderline impossible to land shots outside of point-blank range.
• Reload nerfed from around 5.5 seconds to 6.2 seconds.
• Penetration nerfed from 2.0 studs to 1.8 studs.
• Equip speed and ADS speed are noticeably worse.

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As you can see, the nerfs outweigh the buffs, both in total amount and severity.
This is slightly odd to me, as MG3KWS was never an incredibly good LMG until it got Depleted Uranium. That was super broken, but that's been nerfed, so we're all good.
By default, it's definitely not bad. It was easy to use as the whole point of the LMG was that it erased everything, had good accuracy, and had a slightly larger mag compared to standard rifles, alongside amazing reserve ammo (300, enough for 6 reloads). To make it balanced, it had terrible mobility, handling, and uptime.
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A weapon's uptime is how often it can fired/used. Weapons that have big mags get to shoot for a longer time, so its uptime is considered good. Weapons that have fast reloads also have good uptime, as your downtime, which is when you're reloading/not firing, is small.

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MG3KWS has a decently big mag, being 50 bullets, but two major issues came from this.
It has 1000 RPM, which is fantastic for erasing enemies, but is terrible for a 50-round magazine. You already know how fast Vector burns through its mag, so imagine that issue but with an LMG, which is supposed to have an amazing uptime at the cost of a long reload.
MG3KWS burns through its mag the fastest out of all the LMGs (before MG42 was added). This wouldn't be a big deal, but it also has the reload of a belt fed LMG.
Because of this, 30-40% of your gameplay with MG3KWS is reloading. It definitely had a better reload than most belt fed guns (being 5.5ish seconds instead of 6-7 seconds), but the reload was still longer than a majority of weapons.
So, the MG3KWS had a massive upside with a massive downside: amazing time to kill (TTK) at the cost of awful uptime.
You can destroy the entire enemy team, but only for a limited time. Once you're out of ammo, you're done for. You cannot reload quick enough to retaliate, and even better, your swap speed is slow, so you cannot get to your secondary as fast as the enemy can (unless they're using a heavy weapon like you).
You do have a higher chance of killing your enemy before this situation occurs however, so the goal is to erase everyone before your ammo is used up.
I love this playstyle. Extreme weapons/characters are my favorite, big upsides with big downsides. As such, MG3KWS quickly became my favorite weapon in PF. Since writing this post I have dropped 15,685 kills with the gun. I go to it whenever I'm bored and I always have a blast.
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Now, let us speak about what happened to the MG3KWS.
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StyLiS reworked the MG3KWS twice before 8.0.2 released.
the first attempt was adding hip/aim choke that got progressively worse the longer you fire the gun. This was a massive nerf, as it caused the MG3KWS to be unable to hit anything past CQC (close quarters combat). Furthermore, it encouraged bursting the MG3KWS, which isn't a bad concept, however the recoil of the MG3KWS was specifically made for bursting to be ineffective.
The first couple of shots send the gun flying upwards before stabilizing and becoming quite accurate from mid to mid-long range. Because of this recoil pattern, bursting the gun is terrible as you constantly shoot your gun very high up over and over again, making hitting shots incredibly difficult.
Even worse, the choke didn't reset the moment you stopped firing, so continuously bursting would still lead to choke and terrible inaccuracy.
StyLiS heard the negative feedback and decided to rework the gun entirely in order to make it healthier for the player base.
MG3KWS was then given the rework it has today. The recoil was made to be horrifically bad and inaccurate as well as being very slow handling wise. Its reload was also made to be worse than before.
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So... my thoughts. Let us begin.
MG3KWS is terrible, simple as that. It cannot hit anything outside of close to close-mid range, has even worse uptime than before, and is also horrible handling-wise.
When you put on the necessary attachments to get the gun's recoil relatively controllable (literally everything that slows the gun down, such as DCL, a grip, and Full Stock), it has one of the worst mobility and handling stats in the entire game.
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For comparison, the HECATE II has slightly better walkspeed, ADS walkspeed, and much better ADS speed and swap speed compared to the MG3KWS.

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"Okay, so what's the issue? ", some of you may be asking.
The issue is that the MG3KWS has no worthy upside anymore. ;__;
Its damage was buffed, which seems good at first, until you realize the higher damage breaks zero thresholds.
It's still a 3-shot in CQC to a 5-shot in LRC (long range combat), and a 2-shot headshot in CQC and 3-4 shot headshot in LRC. Furthermore, Hollow Point does not break the 2-shot limb shot threshold (thank God, that would be broken), so almost nothing has changed.
The only good thing is that Hollow Point and Depleted Uranium now remain a 5 shot at range instead of a 6 shot, which really doesn't matter as Hollow Point still doesn't make the gun kill faster and Depleted Uranium has been nerfed from the absolutely broken 6 studs of penetration to 2.7 studs of penetration... which is the exact same pen as Armor Piercing.
Depleted Uranium does give the gun insane velocity, hitting 3375, but it doesn't matter as the recoil prevents LRC entirely.
The new recoil provides a new massive downside alongside the pitiful uptime that is now even worse: Really, really bad recoil. I don't know how to explain it, it's just like the old recoil however the vertical jump is 3x worse and the stabilization doesn't even matter cause the vertical and horizontal recoil is absolutely atrocious.
It has so many downsides now, all of which are big: bad recoil, bad reload, bad uptime, bad handling, like what on Earth isn't bad about this gun?
All for what? Good DPS? Good TTK?
I'm not sure what the gun's upside even is anymore, as the old upside of being a 3-5 shot with amazing RPM seems too weak because you're missing shots left and right now.
Literally the only way to balance this gun as it stands is to make the damage absolutely insane, something like 40-25, which would be a 3-4 shot. Also revert the reload nerf and the handling nerf, but what's sad is that wouldn't even make it that much better, because of one massive problem.
The MG42 exists.
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The MG42 is the same thing: really bad recoil, bad handling, even worse reload, horrendous uptime, good God it's terrible.
But there's one exception: It has 1200 RPM, which can increase to 1500 RPM, the highest in the entire game. If you're a monster, you can use muzzle booster and reach 1620 RPM, but that's slightly overkill.
Worse of all, the MG42 can 3-4 shot.
It's the MG3KWS but with crazy upsides. Heck, it used to 2 shot limbs in CQC with Hollow Point, but that was annoying, so they removed it.
It isn't meta though, and that goes to show how bad the concept of all the really bad downsides with one upside is, because even MG42 can't make it work with absurd TTK, damage, and even pen (it can penetrate 2.5 studs). At least it erases people, which is super broken when it can work. 1200 RPM with 41-25 damage is straight evil.
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Before I end this post, I will provide the three set ups I've found that makes the gun better. One is ok, while the other works somehow but is super cursed. They are:
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SET-UP 1 - DCL, Compensator, Sideways Grip, Full Stock, N/A ammo.
SET-UP 2 - DCL, Halbek Device, Chainsaw Grip, Green LaseFull Stock, N/A ammo.
SET-UP 3 - AMT Terminator, Loudner, Sideways Grip, Retract Stock, Hollow Point.

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Set-up 1 is interesting. I didn't know what Sideways Grip did for the longest time besides keep handling stats decent and provide left-leaning recoil. I still don't know what it does, but it works very well for MG3KWS. Compensator helps horizontal recoil but might make vertical recoil too high for some people, so I recommend T-Brake as an alternative. I don't recommend ARS Suppressor as it destroys your only amazing stat: suppression.
The downside to this set-up is the absolutely terrible handling. ADS is a joke, it's legit one of the longest ADS' in the entire game. This makes offense nonexistent, and forces you to play defensively, but even then, you might as well use an LMG that does a better job at holding down an area, such as Stoner 96 or M60.
Set-up 2 works well but is the evilest thing I've ever seen. How this works is beyond me, but it does a good job at reducing recoil into a line and keeps handling okay but not great. Green Laser is there for people who wanna be offensive, and Full Stock is for defensive players. The Halbek Device and Chainsaw Grip works amazingly well (I don't understand why) but turns the gun into a massive gimmick.
It's not fun, but it works and at least isn't useless on offense.
Set-up 3 is a massive meme, but is insane for CQC. Recoil is terrible because only Sideways grip is helping recoil-wise, but this set-up is meant for better CQC performance and God-tier supression, which is at 2.73 (absolutely wild). Your mobility is also a little bit better thanks to Retract Stock. This is currently my favorite set-up because it's fun as hell.
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So, the conclusion? MG3KWS rework failed.
It made many people happy, but there is one audience that it failed, arguably the most important audience: the people who use the gun.
Little people who used MG3KWS still use it, especially since the MG42 exists. MG3KWS has nothing going for it anymore, and I've tried the hardest I could to make MG3KWS work, but either nothing made it better or the most cursed set up worked but was super unfun to use.
This is likely the end of my MG3KWS run. I had 15k eliminations, but now it doesn't mean much. My records mean nothing, not even my KD. All that mattered was how much fun I had, and MG3KWS always provided. Now, my favorite gun is not even fun, much less actually good.
StyLiS, if you see this, I plead you to fix the MG3KWS in any way you can. Losing my favorite gun is seriously making me play it way less often, even making me consider shelving it. I have no favorite gun anymore, and it saddens me to even enter the game days after the update.
MG3KWS lost everything that made it good, fun, and unique, so what's the point of using it? MG42 is the same thing but better, so just use that.
Thank you for reading. Provide discussion of course, I will listen to anything. Discussion is important and I appreciate anything whether it's criticism or not.
I wish you all a good day. Stay safe out there.
^{Good luck on your spawn camping adventures.}
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PATCH NOTES (EDIT COMMENTS): Revised errors, weird spacing, and poor wording. Also added Set-up 3 example (CQC-tailored set up). Buffed MG3KWS (just kidding it's still bad).

Please comment on anything I've missed. I'm sure I missed a lot, especially regarding UMs, battle animations and art names.
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• Scene where Matthew punches the ground to stop the fighting between Nikol and Glimmer is the same as Vandham in XC3 when he stopped the fight between Noah and Mio.
• Nikol's jumping animation is the same as Shulk's weird jumping animation in XC1.
• A's Chain Attack Order finishing move animation is same as when Alvis finished off the Telethia when he meets Shulk for the first time in Makna Forest in XC1.
• Shulk's Talent Art shares the same animation as Dunban's Talent Art, Blossom Dance.
• Glimmer's Colony is Gamma, the same one as Mio, Sena and Taion.
• There are two treasure chests in the game; one is the Giant's Treasure Chest from XC1 and the other is the White Treasure Trove from XC2.
• Outlook Park Affinity View is obviously reference to Fiora's quest in XC1 where she brings sandwich to Shulk.
• Yesterdale's BGM and Battle BGM is Colony 9 and Time to Fight! from XC1. Time to Fight! is also used in the very first reveal trailer for XC1 when it was still known as "Monado: The Beginning of the World," which means that it is the very first Xenoblade music that was ever revealed.
• Three songs that kids of the City request Na'el to play are: Gaur Plains (XC1), The Tomorrow with You (XC2) and The Bringer of Chaos! Ultimate (XC2 Zeke fight BGM)
• Dungeon Maker is the same Nopon in XC3 that asks you to go through dungeon puzzles to collect Nopon Coins. Also one of the Seven Legendary Nopons.
• Georgie in Colony 9 who asks to collecting Dancing Apple is the granddaughter of Giorgio, who was the chef of the best curry restaurant in Colony 9 in XC1, also asks Shulk to bring Dancing Apples for curry. Georgie is likely the daughter of Giorgio's daughter who was not happy that her father didn't play with her because he was such a workaholic (also another quest in XC1). Also, since this curry recipe was given to Matthew who was extremely impressed by it, Monicurry in XC3 likely can find its lineage here.
• The book in Quest "Lost & Found: Unread Book" is "The Tale of Bringer of Chaos," obviously about Zeke's exploits.
• Colony 9's Ether Furnace is obviously a nod to the same one in XC1.
• Fried Octomayo for Linka's birthday is reference to Pandoria's favourite pouch item being Fried Octomayo in XC2.
• Rex's intro scene is obviously full of reference (the cinematography and his lines). In Japanese, he says "Kojyo (kid)" to Nikol (and Matthew later), which is the same term that Malos uses to refer to Rex in XC2, and became a meme in Japan that represents Malos.
• As far as I can tell, Rex says the same post-battle lines in Japanese, and likely Shulk as well. Cannot confirm for English dub.
• Affinity View in Raguel Lake regarding the Submerged Ruins obviously has the famous meme ("I'm not really feeling it"). Same with Japan, Nikol says "Odayakaja nai desune" which is the meme in Japanese that represents Shulk (it's one of the random lines Shulk says when he received a quest iN XC1).
• Affinity View in Raguel Lake regarding the Lord of Raguel Lake is the White Eduardo, a unique monster that only shows up during thunderstorm in XC1.
• The quest "Lost & Found: Wedding Ring" is reference to "Search Quest 1 (Colony 9)" in XC1 where Shulk has to find a lost wedding ring in XC1.
• The Mural Quest is reference to "The Riddle on the Wall" quest in XC2, where Rex has to find several Nopol Murals across Alrest to find the treasure. The final treasure, Orbital Skyreader, is the final treasure salvaged in the XC2 quest "Salvager King."
• King Agni's Tomb is the same one in Makna Forest in XC1. Matthew is bewildered who could be that big to require that big of a coffin. In Lupon's quest in XC1, it's revealed King Agni is a giant.
• The treasure hunt quest in Black Mountain leads to The La Luz Temple, which is the same as The La Luz Church in XC1. It is also accessed through a High Entia holding a special key emblem.
• The unique monster Gotthart, the Etheral is reference to XCX tyrant, Gotthard, the Intimidating.
• Tranquil Cliff (?) in Raguel Lake is reference to Tranquil Grotto in XC1, which is located in the same place, but is a cave instead of a cliff.
• Three Sage Summit is obviously the same one as that godforsaken place in XC1 that requires you to be olympic level skijumper.
• The ruins where Glimmer and Nikol fight Shulk and Rex to prove themselves, and eventually awakening their Ouroborous potentials, is where Rex fought Jin and Malos in Cliffs of Morytha (Gotrock Oracle Ruins) and awakened Pneuma's true powers as the Aegis.

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That scene in Chapter 5. I haven't beaten Xenogears or Saga yet so I'm sure others know more than me.

• The logo on the radio is Vector Industries, from Xenosaga.
• Project Exodus is from XCX
• Philadelphia-class mothership is the class of ships that The Eldridge in Xenogears is part of.
• Saviorites are from XC2 as the rebel forces that attacked First Orbital Station, but in Japanese, they are referred to as Salvator, which is a concept from Xenosaga. (They were also referred to as Salvator in XC2's Japanese dub)
• Dimitri Yuriev is a character from Xenosaga.

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EDIT: more additions

• The ending theme, Future Awaits, is sung by Joanne Hogg. She also sang the ending themes for Xenogears and Xenosaga Episode I.
• In Japanese, when they collect a rare field item, Rex says the same line he says in XC2 ("Otakara getto!")
• And of course, Rottbart Jr. is reference to Territorial Rottbart, the infamous overleveled UM in both XC1 and XC2 that roams an early open area.
• Unique Monster Dark Murakmor found in Ruined Anti-Air Battery is the same UM found in XC1's Anti-Air Battery 3.
• Exiled Fortress has the same set up here as it did XC1, with a hall full of Ignas that stops you from getting to a quest item. After beating all the Ignas in FR, a UM Radicalized Godwin spawns, which is a refernece to Reckless Godwin that spawns in the same place in XC1.

Till now .. whoever i have met in real life...may it be elders are younger ones or any one.. i have always respected them.. respected their feelings ...their opinions....i have always been kind to everyone and never abused anyone before.. but the way others have treated me is so damn disrespectful .. showed me no emphaty and backstabbed me so many fucking times that i cant even remember bc itni toxic aur ghatiya ho chuke he hum sab ki kisi ka help na krke haste hain in return...today i lost complete faith in his damn ugly world..... pata nahi mere doston ke itne friends hai meri toh social life hi itni gandi ho chuki hai.. i have no true friend and whoever was there .. they all backstabbed me...jab mene doosron ke barain me sochta hu wo mere barain me kyu nahi sochte ......anyways ab bhi tum sab log phaltu ke bsdk padhlo wale memes daalke mujhe aur pakaoge... abhi jaa raha hu vectors karne

1. Traditional whitelisting in email security gateways opens up all manners of impersonation sin. You tell an organization of a problem and they just say "whitelist me" like it's not their problem; depending on the employer, allowing their sh*t to fail/be blocked isn't an option...
2. Trying to compensate for other organization's poor email configurations without traditional whitelists is insanely difficult, time-consuming, and sometimes impossible. (Hey Amazon SES! I can't create special/narrow rules for your ill-configured clients if you make your from address completely random, like ["09[email protected]](mailto:"09[email protected]). Maybe you could try to be like others who do something like: bounce--support=client.com__[email protected] )
3. Too many organizations don't set up SPF
4. Too many don't even know about DKIM or DMARC
5. Too many SaaS etc. vendors don't support DKIM
6. Too many organizations use email domains that have no clear association to the organization or it's actual website
7. MX, PTR, A ?? Might as well be an acrostic for Marvel's X-Men Punched The Rival's A-hole
8. Cloud-data-sharing companies often aren't performing security scans on the files they're sending links for
9. URL-shorteners are still in use, making it harder for users to pre-scan links for safety.
10. Cousin-domains abound but are not clearly defined or associated with their primary domain
11. Domains are let to expire and new ones purchased like they bought a new house and it doesn't matter someone else has their original domain
12. Too many talk like cloud is the panacea of solving email woes when it's a lot easier to spoof an international company. It's a hell of a lot easier to get 100k from two locations (e.g. M365 and GSuite) credentials than it is to get 100k from 100k email environments hosted off those platforms. MFA is available on self-hosted as well, not just cloud. SIEM and SOAR are available for both as well. Think the mega-businesses really care if a 5 or 500 employee organization is compromised? No, they don't so it's still up to the business to implement good cyber hygiene.
13. Passwords just plain s*ck for too many privileged organization accounts
14. Then there is training for phishing, smishing, vishing, and all the anti-wishing you could hope for, all while trying to not piss off everyone :-)

I spend soooo much time in email even though it's a sliver of my job because it's a top - if not the top - threat vector.
Agree or rake me over the coals on this.
To use the stale meme.... "Email security is a joke. Change my mind" lol